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Him Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
- The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read…
- Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,…
- But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it…
- A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
- A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by…
- There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
- The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its…
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
- Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his…
- We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget…
- No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the…
- It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
- Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
- But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him-…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi